Job summary
- Main area
- Frailty
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 10 months (weekend working is included in this role)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (working on shifts, Mondays to Sundays including Bank Holidays and late shifts.)
- Job ref
- 151-NM351
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley, Surrey
- Salary
- £41,957 - £50,387 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Frailty Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Nurse/AHP to join the multidisciplinary Frailty Team at Frimley Park Hospital.
The Frailty Service delivers both a front-door assessment model and an inpatient service, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGA), complex care planning, and specialist advice to older people presenting to acute hospital services with frailty syndromes. The team is committed to supporting admission avoidance, reducing length of stay, and preventing unnecessary readmissions for individuals living with frailty.
You will work collaboratively within a highly skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team, including the Consultant Nurse, Consultant Geriatricians, GPs, and a range of frailty practitioners such as nurses, medics, physiotherapists, and a pharmacist.
You will work in a patient-facing capacity across the Emergency Department (ED), Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (fSDEC), Acute Medical Unit (AMU), and inpatient wards. You will be responsible for identifying patients with frailty early in their hospital journey, undertaking holistic assessments using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment framework, and supporting clinical decision-making to help prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate safe, timely discharge.
This role would suit a Nurse/AHP with experience in elderly care, emergency medicine, or rehabilitation, who is keen to develop specialist skills in frailty and the management of this complex patient group within an acute setting.
Main duties of the job
- To work closely with the Consultant Nurse for Older People, Frailty Practitioners, in-reach GPs and the Consultant Geriatrician team to provide fast reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning and hospital admission prevention where appropriate.
- To provide assessment and care planning for patients with frailty.
- To work closely with the Consultant Nurse, Frailty Practitioners, in-reach GPs and the Consultant Geriatrician to proactively identify and manage patients with frailty and support them and their carers in the development of supportive management plans.
- To provide evidence-based holistic assessment and treatment planning for patients with frailty referred to the service, without direct supervision.
- To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues specifically, primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals, leading and facilitating a patient or client focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
- The frailty service operates 7 days a week, currently 0730am-1930pm on Mondays to Fridays and 0730am-1730pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
- The post holder will be required to work within these operating hours, including sharing weekend and bank holiday cover with the other members of the team.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse / Allied Health Professional.
- Post qualification or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.
- Teaching and assessing qualification/mentorship qualification e.g. PETALS
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership qualification or developmental programme
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to advocate patient issues
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
- Ability to understand and interpret research findings or evidence base care and apply to practice
- Demonstrates organisational skills and ability to prioritise
- Computer literate including emails and spreadsheets.
- Good understanding of current nursing and AHP workforce issues
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care / community setting
- Post registration experience in a range of clinical areas
- Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people.
- Experience of working with long term conditions and frailty
Desirable criteria
- Involved in the implementation and management of change
- Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical practice
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be able to travel between sites
- Committed to attend training as learning needs are identified
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Miriam Skelton
- Job title
- Consultant Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07941312986
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